Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-04-22
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

British Isles, Is geologically speaking, |
the Oldest land now above the race OF
the ocean.
Out of the .O6G paintings contrib |
uted to the exhibition of the ROYAL In |
stitute OF Painters in water colors, In
London. S42 We're sold for So3,ooo.
-Vermont navs its iudoes So. 500 a
wear. and there is a scheme to raise the
salaries to $4,000. with $500 for ex-
penses. The Green Mountain Gov
ernor gets 81 900.
.a,,o. .a.;,,o 90
a.. e. ~ t'', 80 =. .iI. pounl,,t;on
.''. rs" ...',I.' 49, n,rs;ts. ,ha s,,nt
~ tha histo,;c Rostop massacre March
f77o Rosto,, .Ion,noI
-.
'Legisiative chestnuts is the lat-
est slang phrase. Legislative chesI-
nut Is measure that mas peen as
cusse" ior years ahd' AFTER peing
squeicheu tune anu aSa,h' continues W
Dop up sereheiy every sime Ihe Legisia-
lure meets. CHtcoyo Times.
,r, -. ,,eo,,
s'aIion p,u;a"
ra;Irnad NOS s,,r,,r;sod tho otho, ,no,.n.
!" 90 'p So s,a; ;.s nors a,
81. 10 IN. f,,1 1ot
80 IS t,,,;, uto.,ts . 300 5uaal,s Ia
aha,,t hnn raasa shinnad ol;ve dead
~ ~ 60 uonst;Ia,;on hpf oansad tbe los
posIon Fill
A''N '''
The members OF a society recently
organized at Hudson, N. T., pledge
themselves TO not make use OF the
feathers OF any wild bird as ornaments
also W u'scouraSe 'heir use W o'"o.'
ioi ueooi a.'fo pup o as'H ,,
tio,i mas ineiiioeIshiP ~ one huuuiou'
anu i,ciuoes many M, VI ', a,. io''"'nS Peo-
PIE vi 'he 'o"h' i'"e9'
The abundance OF woodchucks IN
Madison County IN. u town led the
authorities TO oler bounty OF Ten
cents each 1or TAILS OF the ohehdihg
varmlnts' during the absence OF
the town treasurer the boys passed III
fourteen hundred tails OF chlpmuhks'
thu treasurer's wife paying one nun
dred ana forty collars bounty 1ot
,uen' neh ner nuso'nu io'.'i nou
ieSso"s III n"'"' ~ ni''oiy "eio "' o"'o
'"Nem up
Inc steamship Assyr'ah Moharch'
from London. whlch arrived IN Ne"
1ork recently, hao on poaru seVerai lihe
specimens OF the animal World OF
when there were three kangaroos LOT
the central fark Zoologlcai "ardehs
One OF them Is mousercoloreu ana
TWO are nearly piacK. lhey are iiVe
years OLD, ana came from Austraiia
and were fed mostly upon nay during
the voyage put showed preference
1or cappage'-N. 4. roSt'
between fourth ann flith streets'
on Spruce street. workmen recently
came upon an ancient "reminiscences III
the shape OF cemetery that ahteuates
local historical records, ana is NOT ac-
counted Tor oy the OLDEST hhapltaht,
The laborers hrst struck stone wall
severai rect below inc surface OF Ine
street Which was regularly ana SUP
stntially pullt ana had resisted the
ravages OF time' ana close oy iouho
vault in which were human skulls
and bones and the remnants OF de-
cayed and broken collins = f"'f"ae'p''o
Fress.
Near Colusa, Cal, recently. an ar
row point made of ivory was extracted
from the breast of goose shot on thu
wing. As there are no savagcs nearel
than the Arctic regions with whom
ivory Is plenty, the conclusion Is Una
the arrow was maze from the tcoth
walrus or some otner Norv3awe'
monster and shot INTO the breast Oh I'M
bird by an EsquImau' or perhaps D,
an inhabltant OF those polar region
which our world mas oeen uhaole q
penetrate. The point mad been IN TN
flesh Tor some time' as the SKIN OF Tn
goose mad grown over the arrow
One morning recently. relates tn
Boston Record. young lady on he
way to work passed by one of the hes
hotels. in front of which stood thre
well-dressed gentlemen, EVIDENT
guests of the hotel As the young lad
approached she observed thinly-clad
half-starved little girl repulsed by on
of the gents. The little girl asked he
for money, so she took a nickel out c